The Process of Science

... the natural world Science is a very specific way of learning, or knowing, about the world The history of the past 500 years demonstrates that science is a very powerful way of knowing about the ... 3/12 The Process of Science Scientific Inquiry One thing is common to all forms of science: an ultimate goal “to know.” Curiosity and inquiry are the driving forces...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2017, 00:52

... What Are the Objectives of the Module? Doing Science: The Process of Scientific Inquiry has four objectives The first is to help students understand the basic aspects of scientific inquiry Science ... by sharing their results with their classmates This gives them an opportunity to ask 25 Information about the Process of Scientific Inquiry Doing Scie...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 15:03

... Ideas into Words This page intentionally left blank words Mastering the Craft of Science Writing ideas into Elise Hancock Foreword by Robert Kanigel THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ... interest in it Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t They must, though, be abl...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:47

... fertilize and weed There is work to be done But the work pays off biggest when the plants are right for the soil and microclimate of the particular garden Is there some subject or writing style that ... and a thermos of coffee Lunch was on a tray, the answering machine was on, and she would take the children out for the day Now nothing could interfere with his writing An...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... all kinds of things with this theory The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron They should be connected together, if this theory was right, by a certain ... most part, the best scientists agree on the current best theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits It answers the most questions with the greatest precision and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15

... Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writing / Elise Hancock p cm ISBN 0-8 018 -7329-0 — ISBN 0-8 018 -7330-4 Technical writing I Title T 11 H255 2003 808′.0665—dc 21 2002 011 065 A catalog ... xvii A Matter of Attitude Finding Stories 29 Finding Out: Research and the Interview 45 Writing: Getting Started and the Structure 69 Writing: The Nitty Gritty 95...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... interest in it Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t They must, though, be able to learn science, be ... intelligent questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Elise was a...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... deeply with the ma- Ideas into Words terial as they with the readers Indeed, their curiosity and its fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of what lets the reader trust them—a process ... always have the reader in mind, not only as they write but also in the finding out that comes before They their research with integrity, digging deep, and they write with the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... writers At parties, people often tell me that they have decided they want to be writers, and they’ll get started as soon as they have more time, or when they have their study fixed up, or when they ... way of Being that in turn gives rise to appropriate Doing You can spot the best mentors, like the best parents and the best shrinks, because their former protégés are out there doing th...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... Another whole class of story ideas arrives from the other direction: from outside the world of research, in the form of a question, observation, or piece of news.To understand the phenomenon then ... of stars, from the bottom of the ocean to the everyday flutter of the human heart Unseen worlds are daily becoming visible These stories have special appeal, not only...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... Each party brings special expertise to the table .The science writer knows how to translate science for the public, while the scientist knows the science Whenever you start writing about any particular ... is the topic of this chapter But first, let me recommend one more attitude: The science writer and the scientist are allies, sharing a commitment to science and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... there must have been other ways to approach the issue, so what was the advantage of this one? The answers are always part of a larger picture, about either the science or the research strategy ... fact, the better the scientific team, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the junior Research and the Interview 53 Ideas into Words members—who are their future...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... my rapport with the other person suffered, plus I often lost track of the content The problem is that, when I’m typing at the speed of speech, the words blur into a succession of letter combinations ... the answers; you ponder some more A period of wandering in a formless void is necessary to any writing of substance, simply as part of achieving a new synthesis Th...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... head at the close “We could a lot of good for other countries where they really need the camels for meat,” Skidmore said “Where they really need them for milk Where they desperately need them for ... another opener, by Cullen Murphy, from “Lulu, Queen of the Desert” (The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2000, reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly), which relies largely...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... magnificent island.” Then I considered the essay’s title: The Island at the End of the Earth.” Hmm In many seagoing cultures, the islands at the end of the world are where the dead and dying go ... is the symmetry so clear at opening and close The reader enters and leaves this universe of words at the same place, pulled through the duration of the trip by a wel...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20